Our children deserve better than a teacher trained at home

GOOD news — you can now become a primary teacher for 5,500 a year and you can spend at least 70% of your time at home working online.

It's great to be back to the good old days when you could buy your way into nearly any job in this country. We now have a situation where a private company will 'train' our primary teachers, mostly online, and all of the reports commissioned by governments over the years in relation to teacher training will be scrapped. In teaching, where communication and relationships are paramount, all the work now being done in the training colleges and at the school-based training level will be lost.

So much for all of the talk about the need for teacher-training students to engage in:

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